People v. Thomas

OPINION OF THE COURT

Solomon H. Katz, J.

The prosecution herein sought to admit into evidence, over the objection of defense counsel, portions of the minutes of a codefendant’s plea allocution, for the limited purpose of proving that defendant was aided by another person actually present, a necessary element of the crime of robbery in the second degree under subdivision 1 of section 160.10 of the Penal Law.

Whether a codefendant’s plea allocution is admissible as a declaration against interest is apparently a question of first impression in the New York State courts.

In this jurisdiction it is…